Jazz Roots Series Announces 2011-2012 Season

Performances at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami to feature performances by Wynton Marsalis, Larry Harlow and more

Starting from November 2011 to April 2012, the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County presents the fourth year of the concert series Jazz Roots: A Larry Rosen Series. Produced by Larry Rosen, co-founder of GRP Records, it will be performed in the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall.

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Eliane Elias

By Takehiko Tokiwa

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Irvin Mayfield performing with his group at 1st anniversary of his Jazz Playhouse club in New Orleans

Performances by esteemed jazz ensembles, including Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and its Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the series covers jazz from the streets of New Orleans to the music of George Gershwin and Larry Harlow’s La Raza Latina: A Salsa Suite. This season looks at jazz and its changes through time. In an interview with JazzTimes in 2010, Rosen said, “It’s a story. It’s about the drums that came from Africa to become the music of the Americas. It’s the roots of Brazilian music, the roots of Cuban music, the roots of calypso, the roots of blues, jazz and rock. That’s the overall umbrella.”

On November 4, 2011, the show opens for this six-concert season with the Jazz Meets Gershwin concert. The themes for the other concerts include Down in New Orleans, Larry Harlow’s La Raza Latina: A Salsa Suite, Blues & Soul, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and a Night in Rio.